>>I suppose it's possible that they found them during a search for oil. Kind of like the Dead Sea Scrolls. They could have been in an earthen jar left by a scribe in the 3rd century AD. What's so hard to believe?
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>Look, you can't buy any foodstuffs around here without a recipe printed somewhere on the package... it's just good marketing. If you sell margarine and attach a recipe to it, then they'll discover they need eggs too, and another pack of margarine.

Perhaps they gleaned some nukular info from docs posted on our gubmint's “Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal" website, before they were removed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03documents.html?ref=middleeast